We had to integrate all these formats and aspects and make it feel like a coherent whole.” It would have a 2.40 hard mask and sometimes someone would put their hand outside the mask and cross over it. Another manifestation was a hard mask on a shot. So, in a scene featuring Scott and Ramona talking with a de-focused background, for example, instead of the bokehs in the lens being circular, they were subtlety heart-shaped. The film is presented in 1:85 spherical but the look is very anamorphic so there are flares throughout and we play with film optics to present the effects. “A lot of the fight sequences have a slow-mo speed ramp effect on them. “We shot with a variety of formats – VistaVision, spherical, anamorphic and digital on the Phantom,” said Churchill. The tests set the methodology for the fight sequences which would be captured using several film formats and shooting techniques. Churchill orchestrated two test shoots to nail down the look of the fights, collaborating with cinematographer Bill Pope, production designer Marcus Rowland, stunt co-ordinator Brad Allen and the director. “The main effort from our perspective,” commented visual effects supervisor Frazer Churchill, “was taking the feel of the graphic novel and turning it into something that was more physical in terms of colour and weight and all the things you need for photographic reality.”ĭouble Negative handled the large volume of fight sequence and on-screen graphics effects, basing the look on the original graphic novels, storyboards by Edgar Wright and his brother Oscar and a fair amount of previs. Confrontations with these exes play out in fantastical and epic fight scenes coupled with on-screen sound effects and graphics. Scott meets and falls in love with Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and it soon transpires that to win her over he must defeat seven of her evil exes. X.īased on a series of graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley, the film follows 23 year old Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) and his Toronto-based hipster musician friends who are in a rock band called Sex Bob-omb. We take a look at the work by Double Negative and Mr. Visual effects supervisor Frazer Churchill oversaw more than 1200 shots for film. the World, the title character woos his new girlfriend by battling her seven evil exes in Japanese Anime-style fights punctuated with video game-like on-screen graphics.
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